Workspace Updates

We road tripped to a little beach town on the Florida panhandle called Destin. I thought I had been transported to the Caribbean… I was blown away. Absolutely love this place.

Anyway, back to where we left off.

Let’s rewind to phase 1: More desk space in my office.

In the past year I’ve quickly outgrown my double Ikea desk setup, as evidenced by the piles of boxes and equipment:

Lots of wasted space and a huge lack of a work area. After some brainstorming, I had a lightbulb moment and figured I could just shift the desks to the right and add another one against the right wall to form an L shape. Luckily, it fit perfectly under my map!

Gotta love those cheap & easy solutions. I could still use another 2-3 of these desks in a perfect world, but this is 100 times better than before.

Because everything shifted a couple feet to the right, I had this empty space between my computer desk and the wall that I had to put to use.

What I really needed was a place to hang my stuff, as the floor had become a collecting area for purses/flip flops/blankets/sweaters. So I scoured the aisles of Hobby Lobby looking for inspiration, and found it:

Okay—so the JS is more decorative than functional. I was trying to figure out how to incorporate them into a coat hook somehow, but decided they’d be better off just painted a fun color to add some dimension and personalization to the space.

I also scored this large woven basket for half off ($12!):

Into the spray chamber they went (along with my key holder template from my last post)

Once dried, I taped off the sides and sprayed the face of the letters with a coat of Valspar’s Exotic Sea (leftover from my Target sunroom table). All it took was a bit of double sided sticky foam tape and they were on the wall. I then centered my hooks below them and secured them into the wall with walldog screws, and I had myself a purse hanging area:

I love how it matches my binder labels and file folders.

And my basket fits in the space perfectly.

Yay for functionality!

Here’s the wide angle of everything:

But I’m not done yet.

There’s something that is just not working for me… can you guess what it is?

Here, I’ll narrow it down a bit…

If you guessed the two big boxes being used as a cabinet, you would be correct.

But I’ve got the perfect solution…

Of course, this won’t look anything like its current state next time you see it. I’m taking a break from my typical paint it blue/white and distress it procedure and trying something new. Without giving too much away: it involves wallpaper.

With that said, I’m anxious to get started so I’m signing off to go grab my supplies. Tune in next time for the reveal 🙂

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Ooo, I like the new set up! Is it weird that it looks bigger to me? Even with an extra desk? I just realized your office is almost identical to ours- Same weird lonely window placement, same Ikea desks, same “How the heck do we make this functional” issues 😉 Only we have TWO people crammed in there. Thankfully, we're not work-from-home-ers!